The Hall of Fire

It's harder than it looks.

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Today in dammit Terry Pratchett! TIL that Otto Marseus van Schrieck was a 17th century painter who made dramatic use of light, darkness, and reptiles. Like this. 960px-Otto_Marseus_van_Schrieck_001.jpg On Discworld, Otto von Chriek is a "black ribboner" (sworn off blood) vampire who is a p...

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Came across a new game

Is he Tom Bombadil?

In general, a character not caring about certain things can be an important point for plot or character development (see, The Christmas Carol). But in particular, Murderbot is not always the most reliable narrator of its own emotional state.

THREE more books, by Jingo! K. B. Wagers, A Pale Light in the Black Coast Guard in space. A fun adventure with likeable characters, a found family trope, and not too much violence. I'm starting the second book, and a third is coming out soon. John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye Crack treated se...

Singular they?

That's great, Impish! Voyager was the only Star Trek series that watched as it came out, and still my favorite.

Is that from a song?

That's it. Your turn.

*gasp*

No, I meant I didn't look it up in the book. And then I realized that I can in fact open the book on my phone.

New quote.

But thieves rarely return to the stables.

Full disclosure, I had to search for the quote because I very nearly remember it but I don't have my books.

Is there none whom you would name? In whom do my people trust?

Théoden deciding whom to leave in charge?

I fixed it, thanks, Inanna!

That was so weird, because I haven't had the ship article open since the accident, and I've dumped my cookies since.

Lightspeed Magazine has The New Atlantis in full online.

It's a 1975 story that I read in the 00s and I remember thinking that while powerful, it took the themes of the day past the logical extreme. How optimistic of me.

Spiderlight got returned before I finished listening and now there's a long line. I had 6 hours left over 3 days, but it didn't grab me enough to power through. It'll come back. Is it just me, or is Adrian Tchaikovsky just not taking his characters seriously? I'm 1/3 into the book, and the "her...

PXL_20250517_195347515.jpg This turkey vulture was circling low over the road, and then I realized it was being harassed by a crow (not pictured) I didn't bother to take photos of turkey turkeys, but I can settle a debate about them flying if there's still one. Three of them took off one by one and...

I can't believe I finished another book! This one on audio, Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett. It's the third book in the Emily Wilde series, where the MC is a renowned dryadologist in the universe where fairies are real and are studied like other natural sciences. Written in...

Those are amazing shots!

Stop the presses, I actually finished a book. Through Wolf's Eyes by Jane Lindskold is like Mowgli meets A Game of Thrones, but the world is not as brutal as G. R.R. Martin's. It's not very deep or challenging, but I like that the plot revolves on main characters being sensible and gravitating to ki...